Comments on: Nanoscale snowmanhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2By: placemathttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662535
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662535You don’t think a cure for cancer might be aided by our ability to manipulate very small things? Maybe the snowman should have been frowning, to show how serious research is. :(
]]>By: hhypehttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662031
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662031Thank you, jere7my, for pointing out that “nano” doesn’t apply here. Using the criteria here, I am a nanoscale person, I just happen to be 1.8 billion nm tall. I remember when everything tiny didn’t have nano tacked onto it. Michael Smith , perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall.
]]>By: MadMoleculehttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662054
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662054If there were a print-quality version of this available, I’d totally make it my Christmas card.
]]>By: AnthonyChttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662080
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662080“perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall”

There was a report a few months ago about an exoplanet so hot it rained rock.

]]>By: cmacishttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662107
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662107And the cost to the lab was…
]]>By: jere7myhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662374
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-662374Bazilisk, most animal cells are about 10-30Âµm across, so this snowman is about the size of an animal cell. (MadMolecule is correct, too â€” red blood cells are smaller than the average cell.)

Here’s a picture of some euglena (a smallish microorganism) with 20Âµm (the height of the snowman) conveniently marked: